Trivial things that annoy you Part 2

SamAK

SamAK wrote: »

If journalists and the like start saying 'X, Y and Z happened Toozday' insted of X, Y and Z happened ON Tuesday I will genuinely lose all hope for the English language.

I'd give it about a year or two before that's the norm. Same with "Two thousand fourteen" instead of "Two thousand AND fourteen"

:mad:

OldNotWIse

Deleted User wrote: »

I'd give it about a year or two before that's the norm. Same with "Two thousand fourteen" instead of "Two thousand AND fourteen"

:mad:

And "nine four nine" to describe this : €949 B*stards

gramar

gramar wrote: »

Yeah but...Dunnes Shops?

I give Dunnes a pass on that one, as it's built into the name of the company.:rolleyes:

But Dunnes Stores is a shop. It's called Dunnes Stores because they use stores at the back to keep all the stock prior to putting on display on the SHOP floor. :mad:

Now, p*ss off

gramar

Deleted User wrote: »

I hate the way non-thinking Americanisms are creeping into our language at an exponential rate.

The current trend on radio advertising is to talk about "stores" when what they really mean is "shops".

Don't get me wrong, I'm guilty of the odd Americanism myself, and some of them are very descriptive and useful (e.g. the saying, 'don't even go there' used to annoy me but actually it's a succinct way of warding somebody off a potentially ruinous conversation).

But radio advertisers have plenty of time to edit, re-play and refine their messages, and there is simply no reason in the world to call shops "stores". It's not more helpful, more descriptive or fancier sounding, it's just brainless.

Kelloggs country ...shop

OldNotWIse

When you stumble upon "Maria Callas, Ave Maria" on Youtube and settle down for 3 minutes of musical bliss...and then realise it's in German

Daveysil15

zetalambda wrote: »

I hate the way the self service machines in Tesco speak with a British accent. :cool:

The machines in Supervalue are even worse. It sounds like Stephen Hawking with a sore throat.

Czarcasm

OldNotWIse wrote: »

When you stumble upon "Maria Callas, Ave Maria" on Youtube and settle down for 3 minutes of musical bliss...and then realise it's in German

Didn't understand a word, still a beautiful song though!

LynnGrace

Truly trivial...when I see people turn a page corner down to mark their place in a book. It shouldn't annoy me, it's not my book...but if does. I don't even know why!

SamAK

LynnGrace wrote: »

Truly trivial...when I see people turn a page corner down to mark their place in a book. It shouldn't annoy me, it's not my book...but if does. I don't even know why!

Finger-licking-before-page-turning annoys me. I don't know why,

McGc

Slow walkers and buggies...... Raises my blood pressure

B_Rabbit

As a cashier, I find it incredibly annoying when people put money on the counter instead of handing it to me.

Ted_YNWA

Walking up or down stairs in the dark & you misjudge the last step, either thinking their is one more, or missing one completely.

End up doing an embarassing stumble, at least no-one sees it happen.

Czarcasm

LynnGrace wrote: »

Truly trivial...when I see people turn a page corner down to mark their place in a book. It shouldn't annoy me, it's not my book...but if does. I don't even know why!

SamAK wrote: »

Finger-licking-before-page-turning annoys me. I don't know why,

People who mis-treat and have no respect for books in general, it used drive me barmy in school when people used write on their books or just throw them into their schoolbags, my mother used call the turned down corners "dogs ears", horrible way to treat a book!

I know we have some fans of them around here, but kindle owners? Not the same, not the same! :pac:

Fred Swanson

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SamAK

B_Rabbit wrote: »

As a cashier, I find it incredibly annoying when people put money on the counter instead of handing it to me.

As a customer, I find it incredibly annoying when cashiers put change and receipt on the counter instead of handing it back to me.

Pumpkinseeds

When you find the blood from someone's papercut in your library book.

Also motorists who don't slow down when they're driving through a puddle just when you're walking past it, so you have to run to avoid getting drenched. Bastards.

SamAK

Fred Swanson wrote: »

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Aw, SNAP!

Fred Swanson

Fred Swanson wrote: »

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I know that's the custom with some of the foreign shop owners.

They put the change on the plate and pass the plate to you.

It's a small thing but think they should adapt to how we give out the change correctly. Small things matter, and enough of them added up become big things

LynnGrace

SamAK wrote: »

Finger-licking-before-page-turning annoys me. I don't know why,

I worked with someone who would do that finger licking thing when she took stuff off the printer. I used to collect anything I printed quick smart before she got anywhere near it.

Teyla Emmagan

26sdrawkcab wrote: »

My boss has one of those spongey things that you use to wet your finger to turn pages. She pours a drop of water on it to moisten (I hate that word) it. Can you imagine the bacteria on that thing?? She always offers me the use of it when I'm going through a large file, eh no thanks

Bottle of Milton, douse it regularly for her

deise08

That my 'thank' isn't working. to all the finger licking, page bending posts

reap-a-rat

The dusty useless crumbs at the end of the cereal. There's still half a bowl worth of good flakes but all that comes out is the bloody grit

Oops69

reap-a-rat wrote: »

The dusty useless crumbs at the end of the cereal. There's still half a bowl worth of good flakes but all that comes out is the bloody grit

I kind of like that dusty stuff , am I the only one ?

Czarcasm

deise08 wrote: »

That my 'thank' isn't working. to all the finger licking, page bending posts

That happens a lot on the touch site alright, not so much on the desktop site. I think I thanked a post and then when I'm reading back through the thread a couple of weeks later- "Heyyy..."

Meanwhile, was just watching "The Taste" there (cookery competition like X Factor), and with the usual waterworks one of them comes out with "cooking is my life!"


Well when you get the opportunity to cook for the world's top chefs, cooks and food critics - don't serve up shìt!

It's that simple.

Daveysil15

Oops69 wrote: »

I kind of like that dusty stuff , am I the only one ?

You're not alone. I like it too, especially with Start cereal.

Pumpkinseeds

Celebrity awards speeches. Now I rarely watch award ceremonies, I've no interest in them or the vacuous celebrities but sometimes I'll catch a snippit of say Beyonce, doing a 'I'd like to thank my Lord Jesus Christ, my personal Saviour' after performing that song Drunk in love. Total hypocrisy. Incidentally I've no interest in how she shags her husband and I'm no prude but I do find the lyrics to it really vulgar.



*I feel old now.

Daveysil15

When you belch and it comes out a lot louder than you anticipated.

When you fart and it comes out a lot smellier than you anticipated.

When you think you're going to fart but you end up with a shart.

SamAK

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

Celebrity awards speeches. Now I rarely watch award ceremonies, I've no interest in them or the vacuous celebrities.

Depends on the celebrity, Bryan Cranston at the Screen Actors Guild awards for example -

Daveysil15 wrote: »

When you fart and it comes out a lot smellier than you anticipated.

Worse - when you fart and it burns the fooking arse off you and feels like a hot knife has just sliced through your sphincter.

eisenberg1

Czarcasm wrote: »

That happens a lot on the touch site alright, not so much on the desktop site. I think I thanked a post and then when I'm reading back through the thread a couple of weeks later- "Heyyy..."

Meanwhile, was just watching "The Taste" there (cookery competition like X Factor), and with the usual waterworks one of them comes out with "cooking is my life!"


Well when you get the opportunity to cook for the world's top chefs, cooks and food critics - don't serve up shìt!

It's that simple.

:D:D

jasonbourne.cs

people who insist on walking up or down the centre of a flight of steps / stairs , or play with their phone at the same time and take an age to actually move !

the stairs at grand canal dock are small enough as it is , stop taking the piss people :mad: